holly's diary

Today was my day off. My driving lesson was cancelled due to the snow, so i was able to have a bit of a lie in. So my day as consisted of, completing another level of the totally addictive game called the mystery of time and space. Its a logic game where you have to figure out how to get out of the room. Its brilliant. I have also gave my room a complete sortout. This is partially because it needed doing, but also because JT is here on Saturday. Im really looking forward to seeing him and he is also staying over. I am lovingly giving up my bed up for the night so he can get a good nights sleep. This evening i spent some time on the computer and then JT rang so we chatted for a bit. After we said goodnight i decided to have a bit of a pampering time. Ive brought some of those things you put on your nose etc to get rid of all the rubbish. (There wasnt any btw) anyway as usual when i try to do anything to improve my skin or beauty stuff in general it didnt really go to plan. I ended up with my eyes watering as it got stuck and i couldnt get it off. It was so painful and my nose is now really sore. It doesnt help either that ive caught a bit of a cold off mom and dad. So my nose is a bit sore anyway. Oh well hopefully the redness goes before tomorrow.
Other news. my goodie box from Canada arrived the other day. Myself and a canadian shipmate decided to send eachother parcels of goodies you can only get in our own country. I sent things like, softs mints, pot noodles etc. The package i got was brilliant. I got things like a kraft dinner, hersey bars etc. It is fantastic.
Anyway i am on a day shift tomorrow so i need to get to bed. Hopefully this cold as gone by saturday. As i dont want to be feeling poorly as we have a full day ahead.
holly xxx

I had a fantastic weekend in Sheffield. I got to catch up with some folks and also meet some new ones. Sheffield is really lovely. The men at the meet were complete gentlemen. They even carried my suitcase and sleeping bag after we left the pub. Once we got to a shipmates house, he made us all a rather wonderful cocktail, which blended milk, icecream and a baileys style drink. It was absolutly gorgeous. I even got my own bed which was a fantastic bonus.

The following day we all went out for lunch to a lovely pub in the Penines ( i will check out if i have spelt it right and edit at some point if i need to ) After lunch one of the lads dropped someone off at the station and then he showed me around his church. They are doing loads of building work and have some great plans for the church also. It all is very exciting for them as a church. He then took me to the station and he was a complete gentleman, as he carried my bags and waited with me till my train arrived ( you know who you are, and your a complete star for doing that <smile>)

I got home about 8pm and spent the rest of the evening chatting on the computer.

Today i was working the day shift. It was a good shift and suprisingly went really quick.

Im off tomorrow and wednesday. Tomorrow i will be spending most the day preparing a 10minute talk i have to give at my interview for the youth work job im applying for.

My friend melissa has helped me with some ideas. I have jokingly said that i want her as my ‘Life Guru’ as she always manages to say and think of the most brilliant things.

They also sent me a DVD to watch, which shows the area and some of the vision for the church. They are involved in some pretty amazing things, and would be brilliant to be a part of it all. Wednesday i will be traveling back up to Sheffield for the interview and then off out for some tea with the previously mentioned ‘Star’ So a good couple of days ahead i think

holly xxx

I feel like im working loads of night shifts at the moment. I worked last night and tonight also. We should have four staff working a monday night, but due to cut hours we were only allowed three. Unfortunatly one of those staff members phoned in sick, so there was only the two of us. By the time i got home just after 10.30pm, my feet were killing me. Its at times like this i wish i had a boyfriend who was willing to give foot masages at a moments notice but alas i dont, so my feet will continue to be in pain

Im working tomorrow day and im really looking forward to a evening in. Its my only night in this week, as im working wednesday and friday night, thursday im at a pantomine and im in sheffield over the weekend. Im really looking forward to it. There was a near disaster with my tickets though as this morning i woke up about 8am to let the dog out and i somehow managed to knock my glass of water all over my chest of drawers at the side of my bed. Various things got soaked including my train tickets, but they seem to have dried off ok.

I mentioned a few entries ago about a fantastic soppy film that i had watched. I was very pleased today that it was being transfered to ex rental for only £2.99, with my discount i picked it up for only £2.40

I also brought brand new on dvd…The santa clause, Martha meets frank, daniel and lawrence and The cookie fortune. I got all four movies for about £12 which was a bit of a bargain. Last week they finally reduced the friends dvds to £6.50 so again with my discount i got all of series 7 for £30. The only ones i need now is the last one on series 8 and 9. Ive got them all on dvd except for the last 2 series. I origionally brought most of series 8 and 9 on video for about £4 each. For the first 6 series they have 8 episodes on a dvd, so with the buy one get one free offer it worked out cheaper than buying the videos. My plan was to then from series 7 to get them on video as they started putting only 4 of a dvd so videos were the cheeper option. Until i realised i could get them really cheap on dvd. I could in theory complete my set by getting the last 2 on dvd, but it will look really odd when they are displayed together. I know that is a bit sad, but its one of my little quirks lol

Anyway enough of boring you with my friends dilema

I must remember to pick up some cardboard boxes from work as my room is starting to look a little overcrowded. I keep finding fantastic housy things that i will need for when i move out again. When that will be,

I have know idea, it depends what happens with the jobs that im applying for.

My latest purchase is a herb chopper. It was in the Next sale. It is a double bladed one and even comes with its own chopping board, with the centre scooped out so the blades fit in it perfectly. I got it for the bargain price of only £4.99.

I will use the boxes to store some stuff in my room that i wont be using, so atleast i have room to move and it stops looking untidy. I like to have things organised so its really bugging me at the moment that i have stuff everywhere. I need to sort through my clothes aswell, as i can no longer fit everything in my wardrobe and so im sure some things can be sent to the charity shop. There are things i havnt even worn yet. Its always the way, no matter how many clothes you have, you always tend to stick to the same few things as they are the favourites. I hate throwing things away as i always think there will be some use for them at some point, but im going to have to be ruthless.

Ive just thought, again i have waffled on for ages. I wasnt going to make a post as i didnt think i had anything to say, but alas it seems i did lol

holly xxx

Now im not what you call a naturally witty person, but even if i do have to admit it myself i do occasionally come out with a rather brilliant ‘one liner’. There are some people who think that my jokes are not funny, and groan or look puzzled when i say something that i think is quite funny. For example, and can i just point out for the record it will probably not be as funny writing it down, but if you were there at the time, i hope that you would have seen the humour in my comment. Ok the situation happened at work about 2 weeks ago. Chris had been given a old £10 note from his sister by mistake. Although its quite obvious the differences in the new and old note, he pointed out that one £10 note had a picture of Charles Dickens and the other one had a picture of Charles Darwin. I turned round and said the rather amusing line " Yes and that one has a picture of Charles’s mom" ie the Queen. They looked at me as if id just said the most bizarre thing ever. When i got home i told my dad what had happened and he atleast found it funny, and is even thinking of using it as a quiz question, when he sorts out the quiz questions for his next quiz. So atleast something positve came out of the situation.

Something that isnt funny is that we have had a letter off the water board to say that at 23.59 -10.00 on saturday morning we will have no water. Whether they mean no water altogether or just no hot water, i have no idea. Anyone who knows me, knows that i have to have my daily shower and wash my hair. I have the kind of hair that tends to look greasy after one day of washing it, so its vital that i am able to wash it, so i dont look a greasy mess. Unfortunatly i am at work on that morning so i will be unable to have a shower. Its going to be a case of filling up every sauce pan and bucket we have with water the night before, so i can have a wash before work. I remember about 14 months ago when the heating broke at home and i had to boil water on the stove so i could wash my hair and have a bath. It took ages and i had to get up for work loads earlier. I know it sounds rather vain and pathetic, but i hate the thought of looking greasy and smelling. Im just gutted that i have thursday and friday off, so it wouldnt have mattered if they had turned the water off then, as it would be sorted by 10am. So i could have just had a shower then. Oh well its all part of the fun and im sure i can survive one day without having a shower. It can be one of the new and fun things i plan to do in 2004 ha ha ha

holly xxx

After working boxing day, i had three whole days off which was fantastic. My nephew and brother came over on the friday night and stayed over, then on the saturday evening, my two nieces were here. Sunday i didnt have any plans as there was no church service. Well i didnt think there was as there usually isnt, but i was looking in my bag and looked at my church notices and spotted there was infact a service at 4pm and then a bring and share party. It was too late to go, which is why i didnt do anything on sunday.

Monday morning i popped to Ikea with a friend and her husband. It was the sales so managed to get a few bargains. They sell 100 tea lights for the bargain price of £1.75 and that isnt even in the sale. When i saw them at that price last year i couldnt work out if the sign said £7.75 or £1.75 as the one was wrote funny. After Ikea i dropped my things off at home and then a shipmate who lives in the same area was having a open day at home with cups of tea and mince pies so i popped in for a couple of hours.

I then had to go into work and pick up my work keys as they were needed by a shift runner while i was off. On the way home i started to feel a bit unwell, but thought it was because i hadnt really eaten properly all day and just ate a piece of cake at Ikea and then mince pies. By 9pm ish i was being sick etc ( i wont go into details as it really wasnt pleasent ). At 11.30pm i textd chris as i was working with him the next day to say for him to get in a bit early incase he needed to get cover. Fortunatly he is also a shift runner so it would be easier to get someone else in. I continued to be ill thoughout the night and didnt get any sleep. So at 7.30am i rang chris again to say i definatly wasnt going to be in work.

I hate phoning in sick as they always think your lying, it didnt help that they had saw me earlier in the day and i was fine and also that i had just had three days off, but i really couldnt get myself up and ready for work as i felt really naff. I even had to cancel going to my friends party, and sods law i also had to decline going to the cinema with jonathan as i was already busy anyway.

I just hope that vicki doesnt think i was lying about being ill, as id asked her if jonathan was invited to the party the night before, and aparantly he wasnt as it was only people who are in girls group and her housegroup that was invited. I wanted to check with her incase he had forgot it was the party and that is why he wanted to go to the cinema. Hopefully she will be speaking to him soon though, so it will confirm that i didnt see either of them that night. I do worry about daft things, but id hate her to think i was lying to spend time with someone else. Especially as she thinks me and jonathan should be dating. Me and jonathan however are happy to be just friends.

Yesturday i ended up going to work even though i didnt feel 100%, I didnt want them to think i was skiving and also it meant that they could see that i wasnt lying about being ill as my face was still puffy and my eyes were all yellow and bloodshot ( very attractive lol )

New years eve i was planning to go to the church celebrations but instead i put on my pjs and slobbed infront of the telly, as i really didnt feel well enough to go out. I am such a wuss when it comes to being ill.

Today is my other day off, so hopefully i will be back to my normal self tomorrow.

One of my new years resolutions should probably be not to be so bothered by what others think of me lol

Anyway hope you all had a great new years eve.

holly xxx